Data Security

Legislation requiring companies to meet security standards and notify customers of data breaches has moved forward in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Louisiana-based home health and hospice care company Amedisys is unable to locate 142 encrypted laptops and computers that were assigned to former team members.

Unauthorized access may have been gained to some Twitch user account information, but there was no impact to Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services.

Several employees with Indiana-based St. Mary's Health had their usernames and passwords compromised, and the email accounts contained personal information on roughly 4,400 individuals.

In mid-April 2014, Premera received an audit report and was advised, in 10 recommendations, to address vulnerabilities.

According to court documents, victims who prove harm would get up to $10,000 each in a proposed settlement.

The health system was notified by a third party billing vendor that one of its employees had their username and password compromised in an attack.